Just in case you need a laugh: Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high school diploma to fix one. Reassurance for those of us who fly routinely in our jobs. After every flight, Qantas pilots fill out a form, called a “gripe sheet,” which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before...

Or why Moby should stick to being a DJ and never ever try to be a standup comedian or a comedy writer: oh, i got some good lindsay lohan gossip. turns out she’s a space alien and is actually a composite creature made out of 50 other tiny creatures, kind of like when the little rascals stand on each others shoulders and pretend to be an adult. she’s really 50 tiny space alien creatures pretending to be human. it’s true, i...

I was playing around a bit this morning with Google’s Search History functions, and click the link Interesting Items. One of the things it picked (see image) that I might find interesting was the keyword term “баба марта.” I was interested since it was (presumably) in Russian, and I don’t do any Russian language searching, so I clicked on it. A few links down was the WikiPedia entry on the keyword, the gist of...

I really can’t say why I did this yet (I’ll tell you later), but I did a Google Trend search today that turned up the following information. So, as it turns out, John McCain is roughly as popular as “Yer Mom”...

Back before internet memes were called internet memes, there was the geek code. I was so geeky, I had a geek code plug-in called SG code. I’ve long since lost that, but in case you’re wondering, here’s my backwards compatible v3.1 geek code. —–BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK—–Version 3.1GB/CS/MC d+ s+++:– a- C++++ UL+ P++ L+ E—- W+++ N++ o+ K+++ w++++ O– M- V– PS+++ PE++ Y++ PGP t+ 5+...